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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns of technology ‘taking control’

An artificial intelligence luminary, known as the “godfather of AI”, has quit his job at Google and warned of the threat of “things more intelligent than us taking control”.

Dr Geoffrey Hinton, a British cognitive psychologist and computer scientist living in San Francisco, along with his students, are behind the creation of an AI system bought by Google in 2012 that has led to current chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard.

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